Friday, July 13, 2012

IGWRT's-Mary's Mixed Bag & Poetry Jam "I Live Within"

I love to daydream in a flower garden. Where do you like to daydream?

Would you like to hear this poem read to you by my son?

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I live within a rev'rie, dance
to Mozart's symphonies and chance
to spread my wings and fly afar
upon imagination's star.

Of truth and knowledge, fine romance
until with jealousy, askance
does dogma take a jealous stance
and cleave and claw a bright red scar!
I live within.

Embrace I must the world and prance
and place a dream's hypnotic trance
upon the minds of those who are
so limited by judgement's glare.
To miracles! To truth's advance!
I live within.

My son pointed out a "fix". Reverie did not work with the "count" for a rondeau, so I borrowed from Shakespeare (can't go wrong there, right? :) (Reverie: daydream)

Believe it or not, Albert Einstein was a daydreamer and considered that and perseverance his greatest assets. (click for his QUOTES on daydreaming and similar things) My poem is what I think he would like us all to do... embrace not just what WE know, but embrace the world so our knowledge, our truth, can expand!

A quote from him I love is: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." I used the word "fancy" because it fit the rhythm of my structured poem.

No better place to live oftentimes than within a daydream (reverie. Those who live within 'dogma' may be jealous and/or judgmental; but the problem is theirs. You used the rondeau form very well. (After writing one and reading so many, I am now in love with the form.) And so glad you submitted for both RT and Poetry Jam!

Our daydreams (such as Einstein stated) is where some of our (and his) best ideas spring from because in the daydream our mind is wandering freely without the constraints we place on it through our mindful thought. Loved all of this. I expect the cat is thinking: 'What better place to be than in the sunshine tucked up with some good reading' :)

I think it's quite fitting you borrowed that little apostrophe trick from Shakespeare, because this really has the feeling of the classic poetry we all grew up reading. So masterfully written! And a wonderful job by your son reading this, he definitely has an actor's voice. Thanks for sharing this with us over at Poetry Jam.

Your son did a marvelous job reading this!!! You must be so proud...you make me feel so happy for the days when maybe my son will read my poetry!! Lil' bit of tear here....yes, it is so very special....your relationship with your son, your children...six of them...so wonderful!!

Your poem is pure magic....you capture so well the essence of what your commentary speaks of, Margaret.

Wow, what a wonderful read this was. Love the poem, love your musings following and LOVE the beautiful unusual collage with the kitty and the Dalai Lama. WAY cool! What a nice visit this was - a veritable feast:)!

Palm a poem as if fragile even if the words are bold. Let them sink into your skin as if moonlight, let them flow through your veins until they become ordinary - for only then will we know they nourished.

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"What should I say about your tendency to doubt your struggle or to harmonize your inner and outer life? My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you and enough simplicity to have faith. May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging, and confidence in the solitude you bear. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right in any case." (Rainer Maria Rilke) Furnborg, Jonsered, Sweden, November 4, 1904 Letters to a Young Poet